To the Darwin children 20 December 1881
Summary
Has promised to pay Hooker about £250 annually "for the formation of a perfect MS catalogue of all known plants [Index Kewensis]".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 20 Dec 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR (CD library—Index Kewensis tom. 1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13570 |
To F. G. M. Powell [after 3 December 1881]
Summary
Thanks FGMP for his sympathetic and very kind letter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frederick Glyn Montagu Powell |
| Date: | [after 3 Dec 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 117v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13529 |
To G. J. Romanes 10 December [1881]
Summary
Declines to provide testimonial for J. C. Ewart, since he has already done so for Lankester. Was also asked by W. C. M’Intosh.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 10 Dec [1881] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.604) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13544 |
From W. E. Darwin 29 December 1881
Summary
North East Railway Consols.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Dec 1881 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 99) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13585F |
To Francis Galton 18 [December 1881]
Summary
Can FG call on Monday evening?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 18 [Dec 1881] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/2/12 Letter 2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13560 |
To G. J. Romanes 17 [December 1881]
Summary
Asks him to visit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 17 [Dec 1881] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.606) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13556 |
To James Paget 3 December 1881
Summary
Is delighted with JP’s article on vivisection ["Vivisection: its pains and its uses, No. 1", Nineteenth Century 10 (1881): 920–30]. CD is "boiling over with indignation on the subject".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 3 Dec 1881 |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13526 |
To G. J. Romanes 8 December 1881
Summary
Discusses subscription for Grant Allen. Suggests present of microscope.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 8 Dec 1881 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.603) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13536 |
To Francis Darwin [18 December 1881]
Summary
Andrew Clark finds that CD’s heart is perfectly right.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [18 Dec 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13548 |
To G. J. Romanes [17 December 1881]
Summary
Asks him to visit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | [17 Dec 1881] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.578) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12382 |
To T. L. Brunton 17 December 1881
Summary
Feels he should decline nominal presidency of the proposed Science Defence Association.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 17 Dec 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 352 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13558 |
| letter | (11) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (4) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, Elizabeth | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (4) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
